Holder for smoking pipes



April 14, 1959 P. E. AsPEs HOLDER FOR SMOKING PIPES Filed April 9, 1957 FIG.5.

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n a R P. m 5 A M m I M U H MB H United States Patent HOLDER FOR SMOKING PIPES Pinchas Elia Aspes, Brooklyn, N.

Application April 9, 1957, Serial No. 651,760

Claims. (Cl. 24-3) This invention relates to a novel and improved holder and carrier for smoking pipes, and has particular relation to a pouch-like carrier which can be hung on a garment for carrying a smoking pipe about on the body of a person.

Users of smoking pipes encounter difficulties in carrying the pipe about on their person, the usual procedure being to invert the pipe and slip it into a coat pocket or lapel pocket in such a manner that the pipe bowl is located above the pocket and the stem extends downwardly into the pocket. When a pipe is so carried shortly after having been smoked, the accumulated tobacco juices remaining in the stem drip from the mouth of the pipe into the pocket, causing staining of the clothing and imparting an unpleasant odor to the clothing.

According to the present invention there is provided a pouch-like holder for a smoking pipe which can be inserted either within or outside of a pocket, or attached to a belt or the like, which holder is adapted to receive and retain the pipe in inverted position.

An object of the invention is to provide a holder of the character described which is made of a liquid-impermeable material, so that the holder also acts as a protective container which receives and retains the tobacco juice drippings from the pipe and prevents staining or soiling of the clothing.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a pipe holder of the character described which is made of compact form so as to employ a minimum of space and avoid unsightly bulging of the clothing or the pockets therein.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a pipe holder of the character described, which may be formed as a single sheet of plastic material, stamped, bent and heat sealed to provide the pouch-like container, so that the pipe holder is extremely economical in manufacture.

Additional objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent in the course of the following specification when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. l is a plan view of the blank or sheet from which the pipe holder of the invention may be formed;

Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of a completed pipe holder made in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the pipe holder;

Fig. 4 is a front elevation showing a pipe in inverted position in the pipe holder;

Fig. 5 is a side elevational view of the pipe holder containing the inserted pipe; and

Fig. 6 is a section taken along line 66 of Fig. 4.

Referring in detail to the drawings, and in particular to Fig. 1, there is shown an elongated blank of sheet material 10 which is used in forming the pipe holder and carrier. The blank 10 constitutes a sheet of liquid-impermeable material which is preferably rigid or semirigid. It is preferred to make the blank 10 of a thin "ice sheet of thermoplastic rigid plastic, such as polystyrene, or the like.

The blank 10 is provided at one end with a U-shaped cut 12 which defines a cut-out terminal border portion 14 and an inner rectangular portion 16. Adjacent its other end, the blank 10 has a cut-out circular opening or aperture 18 which serves as an opening for the pipe stem in the fully formed pipe holder. This aperture 18 preferably has a radius of approximately one inch, and may be made circular as shown, or may be oval or elliptical if the latter shape is better suited to the shape of certain pipe stems. For practical purposes, the blank 10 is preferably made approximately twelve inches in length and three and one-half inches in width, these dimensions having been found suited to the size of an average pocket.

In the formation of the assembled pipe holder, the blank 10 is heated along transverse lines and bent or folded on these lines to the desired shape, the thermoplastic material then retaining this bent shape upon cooling. In Fig. 1, these fold lines are indicated in phantom as lines 20, 22, 24, 26 and 28.

The fold line 22 is located near the center of the blank 10, and divides said blank into a front wall panel 30 and a rear wall panel 32. The lowermost fold line 28 defines a terminal attachment panel 34 and also defines, together with the fold lines 24 and 26 a pair of top wall panels 36 and 38, the latter panels containing the aperture 18.

In the formation of the completed pipe holder, the panels 34, 36 and 38 are folded inwardly along their fold lines 24, 26 and 28, and the blank 10 is folded along the central fold line 22, as shown in Fig. 6. The cut-out terminal border portion 14 is folded outwardly or rearwardly along fold line 20. The terminal attachment panel 34 is then secured, as by heat-sealing or cementing, to the area of the rear wall panel 32' immediately below the fold line 20, this area being indicated in shaded lines in Fig. l by reference numeral 40. The side edges of the front panel 30 are then secured to the corresponding side edges of the rear panel 32 by heat sealing or cement ing as indicated at 42 and 44 in Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5 to form the pipe-retaining pouch or pocket 46 which is entirely enclosed except for the top opening or aperture 18.

As shown in Fig. 6, the terminal border portion 14 is bent rearwardly and downwardly until it is almost parallel to the rear wall panel 32, the shape-retaining nature of the plastic material forming the holder, retaining the portion 14 in this position. The border portion 14 thus serves as a mounting flap or panel by means of which the pipe holder may be mounted in a pocket, upon a belt, or the like. If the pipe holder is mounted on a pocket, the pouch or pocket 46 may be inserted into the pocket with the border portion or flap 14 depending along the front surface of the pocket, or alternately, if the pocket already contains other material, the flap 14 may be inserted within the pocket with the pouch 46 hanging outside the pocket.

The stem S of a pipe P may be inserted through the top aperture 18 and be fully contained within the pouch 46, as shown in Fig. 6, with the pipe bowl B resting upon the top wall panels 36 and 38. When the pipe stem S is inserted within the aperture 18, the width of said pipe stern spreads apart the aperture, causing the top wall panels 36 and 38 to bend along the fold lines 24, 26 and 28, and widening the top end of the pouch 46, as indicated in Figs. 5 and 6. Although the plastic material constituting the pipe holder is rigid or semi-rigid and shape-retaining, the thinness of the plastic sheet permits such flexibility of the top wall panels 36 and 38 along 3 their fold lines. When the pipe is withdrawn, the pouch 46 will again flatten itself so as to reduce its bulk within or outside of a pocket or the like.

In the inserted position of the pipe P, it will be evident that tobacco juice dripping from the mouth of the stem S will be caught and retained at the bottom of the closed. pouch 46. When desired, the pouch may be easily and quickly cleaned out by merely running water through the top aperture 18. It will also be apparent that in the inserted position of the pipe, the upstanding rectangular cut-out portion 16 serves as a shield to prevent the pipe bowl B from contacting the clothing.

While a preferred embodiment of this invention has been 7 shown and described herein, it is obvious that numerous omissions, changes and additions may be made in such embodiment without departing from the spirit and scope thereof.

For example while the pipe holder is preferably made of a plastic material, other suitable materials may be used if desired, such as leather, plastic coated flexible sheet material or the like.

What I claim is:

1. A holder for a smoking pipe having a bowl and a. stem, said holder comprising an enclosed pouch having a front wall, a rear wall, and a top wall which has an aperture sized to receive said pipe stem, and a mounting flap integral with the top end of said pouch and extending rearwardly and downwardly along the rear wall of said pouch, the pipe being insertible in inverted position in the pouch with the pipe stem extending through the top wall aperture into the pouch and the pipe bowl projecting above the top wall of the pouch, the bottom end of the pouch being closed and being adapted to receive and retain drippings from the pipe stem, whereby the pipe holder protects the clothing from said drippings.

2. A holder for a smoking pipe having a bowl and a stem, said holder comprising an enclosed pouch having a front wall, a rear wall, and a top wall which has an aperture sized to receive said pipe stem, the pouch being made of thin-walled rigid plastic sheet material and being liquid impermeable, and a mounting flap integral with the top end of said pouch and extending rearwardly and downwardly along the rear wall of said pouch and being adapted to be mounted on an article of clothing whereby the pipe-holder may be carried '4 on the person, the pipe being insertible in inverted position in the pouch with the pipe stem extending through the top wall aperture into the pouch and the pipe bowl projecting above the top wall of the pouch, the bottom end of the pouch being closed and being adapted to receive and retain dripping from the pipe stem, whereby the pipe holder protects the clothing from said drippings.

3. A holder for a smoking pipe having a bowl and a stem, said holder comprising an enclosed pouch having a front wall, a rear wall, and a top wall which has an aperture sized to receive said pipe stem, the pouch being made of thin-walled rigid plastic sheet material and being liquid impermeable, and a flap upstanding from said pouch and positioned to overlie the clothing when said pouch is mounted on said clothing, said flap being sized and located to shield the clothing from the bowl of the inserted pipe.

4. A holder for a smoking pipe having a bowl and a stem, said holder comprising an enclosed pouch having a front wall, a rear wall, and a top Wall which has an aperture, the pouch being made of thin-walled rigid plastic sheet material and being liquid impermeable, the top wall being formed of a pair of top wall panels having a connecting fold line extending through said aperture and being normally angularly disposed relative to each other, and a mounting flap integral with the top end of said pouch and extending rearwardly and downwardly along the rear wall of said pouch, the pair of top wall panels being flexible adjacent said aperture whereby the pipe stem may be inserted through the top wall aperture into the pouch for mounting the pipe in inverted position in the pouch with the pipe bowl projecting above the top wall of the pouch, the bottom end of the pouch being closed and being adapted to receive and retain drippings from the pipe stem, whereby the pipe holder protects the clothing from said drippings.

5. A holder for a smoking pipe according to claim 4, in which the top wall panels are spread apart along their connecting fold line from their inclined positions when the pipe stem is inserted in said aperture.

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